Illegal dumping by businesses is on the rise and has impacted on the overall cleanliness of the CBD. Discussions at the recent Social Services, Community Empowerment and Protection Services (SCEP) Portfolio Committee meeting singled out illegal dumping as the cause of the unclean streets in the town centre.
Author: Busisiwe Hoho
In an effort to promote and encourage reading among South Africans of all ages and groups, the South African Library for the Blind (SAL B) will be participating in the first National Book Week to be held in Johannesburg between 10 and 13 September.
Local evidence for climate change is there: droughts and heatwaves in July. However, there are unseen, far more significant changes in areas most of us will never visit, such as at Marion Island and the Southern Ocean which surrounds Antarctica.
Although there is a general consensus among scientists that the earth is getting warmer, there is still a vigorous debate over to what degree humans are responsible. Climate change is nothing new in the earth’s history and is certainly nothing new in recorded history.
Grahamstown schools are conspicuously absent from a permaculture competition organised by Food and Trees for Africa called Eduplant. The competition has a record 580 entries this year, a significant rise compared to last year’s 350 entries, but only eight schools from the Eastern Cape are competing.
“Extensive use of permaculture could be the answer to the country’s food shortage,” said Food and Trees for Africa Eastern Cape co-ordinator Chris Wild. The launch of the Community Garden Project at Boy Boy Mginwya Pre-School, funded by two Dutch organisations, the NCDO and the 1% club, saw officials from Food and Trees for Africa (FTFA) and the Umthathi Training Project in attendance.
I recently had the good fortune to be able to visit part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in its rather remote northeast corner in Ituri Province, definitely one of those places far from the usual trodden track. So what does such a visit have to do with an environmental column in a local newspaper in a small town like Grahamstown?
The Trinity Presbyterian Church Fête is a much anticipated annual event for members of the congregation and fête-goers alike. The fundraising event started small in 1997 as a country kitchen, selling vegetables, cakes and other produce, then in the year 2000 it grew into a fully-fledged fête with a variety of stalls selling books, a furniture auction, crafts and goods.
Anticipati on mounts as Christians@ Rhodes, other campus Christian societies and Rhodes staff members prepare to celebrate the Christians@Rhodes 2010 mission from 10 to 18 September. The mission will also be joined by outside partners such as African Enterprise, Reid Saunders Association and Ravi Zacharias International Ministries.
We all cringe at the thought of being disliked, abused, avoided, discriminated against or possibly hated, yet we are told that these are the very things Jesus Christ experienced as a man on earth and still experiences as the risen Saviour.